59 h. ago How listening to music can help women undergoing IVF get pregnant

One theory, say the researchers, is that music stimulates the release of the brain chemical dopamine, which helps regulate mood and emotions, and which also reduces inflammation.

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3 d. ago The Black feminist movement has a history of standing up to fascism. Now we are inviting others to join us in the fight | Hakima Abbas

The Trump administration is working overtime to intimidate funders from supporting racial and gender justice but this is the time for everyone to do what we can with what we haveWhen Jair Bolsonaro rose to power and moved to dismantle Brazil’s democracy, he faced a formidable foe. A powerful wave of Black women were at the forefront of the resistance that led to his defeat.Beyond defeating an authoritarian, Black women helped elect a tranche of new officials, including record numbers of women and trans leaders. As the vanguard of a young, diverse, representative government, they epitomise Brazil’s best future as a thriving democracy. A future that Bolsonaro came close to foreclosing. Continue reading...

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3 d. ago Ilona Maher mania helps US women’s rugby set attendance records

The Eagles and their star face Japan in LA then expect bumper crowds for Canada in Kansas City and a DC doubleheader with England’s menPromoters for Saturday’s men’s and women’s rugby double-header in Los Angeles are offering “VIP Courtside” seats, hailed as a chance to “feel the heart-pounding action like never before”.“With courtside seats,” the blurb goes, “you’re not just watching the game – you’re in the middle of the intensity. Every moment of pure adrenaline is right in front of you.” Continue reading...

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4 d. ago Revealed: Ian Wright's incredible £1,700 gesture to help a women's player, after Eni Aluko accused him of blocking opportunities for female pundits

Eni Aluko had taken a swipe at the Arsenal legend for taking up space in the women's game and 'dominating' roles, thereby blocking chances for female pundits.

Economics

6 d. ago DWP urges women impacted by State Pension age changes to get help finding work

The DWP explains how there is tailored employment support for older workers to retrain or learn new skills.

Economics

8 d. ago ‘Kush destroys them’: the Guinean rehab clinic tackling a drug epidemic

Experts say a crisis is under way in Guinea, fuelled by a growing market run by cross-border trafficking syndicatesAt Guinea’s only private drug rehabilitation clinic, Dr Marie Koumbassa and her 15-person team are so convinced that drug use is a national emergency that they work for no pay.Every week, SAJED-Guinée (Service for Helping Young People in Difficult Situations due to Drugs) receives dozens of distress calls from relatives of addicts who are then taken to the facility in the working-class Conakry neighbourhood of Dabompa. Continue reading...

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1 week ago Meghan Markle tells working women to 'be courageous' and 'ask for help' if they're experiencing burn out

The Duchess of Sussex, 43, spoke about burn out with her friend and Girls Who Code founder Reshma Saujani on her new podcast Confessions of a Female Founder on Tuesday.

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1 week ago So Katy Perry went to space. Wasn’t there anyone else we could have sent? | Zoe Williams

No disrespect to the pop star or the rest of Blue Origin’s all-female crew, but most of them weren’t obvious astronaut materialI am broadly of the view that Katy Perry should do whatever she likes, and wear whatever she likes, and if she wants to be shot into space for no obvious purpose looking like one of Charlie’s Angels, then that falls squarely into those categories. So why am I so bothered by Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket, which has just made a suborbital flight to the edge of space and back? OK, it’s partly the outfits (see Angels, Charlie’s, above), but it’s mainly the flight manifest: Perry joined Lauren Sánchez, Jeff Bezos’s fiancee; Amanda Nguyen, a civil rights activist; CBS Mornings co-host Gayle King; film producer Kerianne Flynn and former Nasa rocket scientist Aisha Bowe. I cannot help but notice that only two of these women had anything to do with astronauting (Nguyen studied astrophysics and interned at Nasa before becoming an activist).Obviously it’s very staid...

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2 w. ago Loose Women's GK Barry has an unlikely 'saviour' that helped her find her voice

EXCLUSIVE GK Barry - who rose to fame on I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here! - has gone on to become a regular on the Loose Women panel and a social media sensation

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2 w. ago ‘Some of these diseases are in the Bible’: despair as cuts halt progress on age

They are debilitating afflictions that people don’t know about, don’t understand and struggle to pronounce. Now health workers fear they will surge in Africa as USAID-funded drug distribution programmes are cutSince 2013, for around two weeks each year, Sulaiman Tarawallie has pulled on his community drug distributor (CDD) uniform and gone from household to household in his remote farming community to hand out medication to fight river blindness and lymphatic filariasis. Once he has completed the rounds of his village, he heads further out to take the drugs to even more remote homes – keeping the diseases that had plagued generations at bay with a handful of pills.But this year, Tarawallie, who works as a community health worker and primary school teacher in Sierra Leone’s northern Bombali district, will not be making his annual trip. Continue reading...

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2 w. ago ‘Mothers will never be the priority’: Postnatal mental health support cut despite surge in women seeking help

One in five of the 600,000 women a year who give birth in the UK experience a mental health condition but support is patchy and on the decline

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2 w. ago Gladiators star Jodie Ounsley backs new campaign to challenge misconceptions in women's rugby

Gladiators star and former England sevens international Jodie Ounsley believes an innovative new campaign will help challenge misconceptions and bring a new audience to women's rugby.

Events

3 w. ago Sierra Leone has a problem with the drug Kush. Why are these women not being helped?

Sierra Leone's government has declared a public health emergency over the drug Kush.

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3 w. ago Sierra Leone declared an emergency over a powerful synthetic drug but women were left behind

A year ago, Sierra Leone's government declared a public health emergency over the cheap synthetic drug called kush

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3 w. ago Romeo prisoner who had phone sex with guard and fling with jail nurse is arrested 'after spending week on the run when four women helped him go on run'

Harri Pullen, 27, was wanted by police after being released from behind bars where he has been accused of romances with staff members.

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3 w. ago Davina McCall felt 'less of a woman' as she opens up on health struggle

The ex-Big Brother host gave an impassioned insight into her experience with the menopause as well as the turning point which spurred her on to help other women

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3 w. ago Loose Women's Jane Moore admits I'm A Celeb helped her sleep after divorce heartbreak

The star opened up about how her time in the jungle helped her mind to relax more

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3 w. ago Alabama can't prosecute groups who help women travel to get an abortion, federal judge says

A federal judge has ruled that the Alabama attorney general can't prosecute groups who help Alabama women obtain abortions in another state

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4 w. ago Pharmacist shares five supplements that can help hormonal imbalances in women

There are certain supplements that can help balance out women's hormones and help conditions like PCOS.

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